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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 13:02:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length
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To: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com> wrote:
>
> Breaks the "grep for specific messages" case.

Why?

Sure, if you grep for times, you'd not want to enable the relative
time. But why would you grep for a time anyway? Regardless, it would
be your choice.

Generally, relative times are much more useful - the absolute time seldom is.

                       Linus
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